EditorialComet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was discovered by Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker and and their associate David Levy in 1993. (NASA via The New York Times)
EditorialModel of a Lifting Screw, Model of a screw duct in a stern with elliptical stern. The screw light device consists of a loose frame with a two-blade screw, which can be lifted up and down in the tube by a rope that runs over two discs at the top of the ...
EditorialFlint equestrian carabiner, The lock is engraved with a signature. The barrel has a brass copper visor grain. The butt plate can be pulled out so that the weapon can be taken as a gun on the shoulder. The fitting is partly from previously gilt brass, s...
EditorialPsalm 103. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. (Whole folio) Psalm 103. Border decoration with five martlets. Marginal grotesques; including an armless man in a pointed hat with a large plume; and at the foot, an animal with two b...
EditorialPsalm 106; grotesques. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Psalm 106. Border decoration with three large grotesques. In the inner margin, a hooded man issuing from, or being swallowed by, a dragon. In the outer margi...
EditorialPsalm 106; grotesques. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Psalm 106. Border decoration with two large grotesques; one in the form of a bird, the other, in lower margin, with a blue head with telescopic mouth Image ...